Internal Audit & Financial Advisory Associate Director - Energy & Utilities

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Calgary Internal Audit & Financial Advisory (Energy & Utilities) Associate Director

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CALGARY

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JOB DESCRIPTION

You Belong Here  

The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture.  We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.   
 
At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm. 
  

Where We Need You: 

Protiviti is looking for an Internal Audit & Financial Advisory Associate Director to join our team in Calgary supporting our Energy & Utilities clients. 

What You Can Expect:  

As an Associate Director, you'll take a lead role in strengthening our relationships with clients and providing seamless guidance in the completion of engagements. You'll partner with our strategic clients to manage risk.  You'll develop strategies to solve complex business problems using new ways of thinking, and devise solutions to support your clients' needs through analytics, automation or the latest tools and methods. You’ll develop new projects, help identify new business, and build lasting relationships with clients and within the community as you serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor and provide growth and development to teams as you oversee the successful completion of project work plans. 

What Will Help You Be Successful:  

• You enjoy identifying areas of business and process risk, and opportunities to improve efficiency, increase performance, and help clients manage risk.  
• You are passionate about building trusted relationships with C-level executives and providing exceptional experiences that translate to additional project work. 
• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.  
• You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.  

• You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities. 
• You enjoy discovering prospective project work with current and potential clients through networking, knowledge-building, and client interactions. 
• You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities. 
• You view client challenges as opportunities to add value and can translate that into new project proposals and sales.  
• You are seen as a valued contributor to thought leadership and encourage knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams. 
• You have interest in managing a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple industries.  

Do Your Talents Include the Following? 

Demonstrated experience with: 

• Audit methodologies and developing valuable internal audit deliverables, including process flows, work programs, audit reports, and control summaries. 
• Risk and control programs. 
• Business processes such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Revenue with knowledge of accounting operations and/or financial frameworks. 
• Commonly used International Professional Practices Framework, including COSO and PCAOB. 
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act provisions and methodologies for achieving compliance. 
• The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA’s) code of ethics and compliance requirements. 
• Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives. 
• Successfully pursuing business development opportunities and identifying and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.  
• Ability to translate and communicate risk topics and audit issues to client personnel, including executives.  
• Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.   

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Accounting, Finance, or business-related field). 
• 9+ years working in internal audit, consulting, assurance services, or related field, either in professional services or industry. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Secondary emphasis on Visio and Access. 
• Professional Certification such as CPA, CIA, CFE, or similar strongly preferred.  

Our Hybrid Workplace 

Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements varies by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.    

Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience, skills and geographic work location. Below is the salary range for this job.  

$135,000 - $185,000 

Protiviti is not licensed or registered as a public accounting firm and does not issue opinions on financial statements or offer attestation services.

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Protiviti is not licensed or registered as a public accounting firm and does not issue opinions on financial statements or offer attestation services.

JOB LOCATION

CAN CALGARY DT